If I Can't Have You
Yearning Echoes: Matt Andersen's Melancholy Quest for Love
Lyrics
I'd rather come home
I prefer returning to an empty home.
To an empty house
Choosing solitude at home is better than pretending love with someone else.
Then spend my night there fakin' through love
I don't want to fake emotions of love.
With somebody else
Especially not with another person.
I don't wanna wake up
I don't want to wake up to a different person.
To another face
Waking up to someone else's face is undesirable.
I wanna see your smile lookin' up at me
I want to see your smile when you look at me from your pillow.
From your pillow case
Specifically, from your pillowcase.
If I can't have you
Expressing the desire to have you by my side.
Here by my side
If I can't have you physically present.
If I can't have you
Emphasizing the emotional impact of not having you.
I'll break down and cry
It may lead to a breakdown and tears.
If I can't have you
If I can't have you, satisfaction becomes elusive.
I can't be satisfied
The absence of you makes contentment unattainable.
If I can't have you
Reiteration of the emotional impact of not having you.
They say I'm a fool
Acknowledging the perception that chasing you might be foolish.
To chase you around
Despite opinions, expressing the willingness to pursue you.
I know you'd never try to put me out
Believing you wouldn't try to exclude or belittle me.
Or put me down
Reassurance that you wouldn't put me down.
I've seen what he has
Having observed what another person possesses.
I know what he can do
Knowing their capabilities.
But you're never gonna be as happy with him
Confident that you won't be as happy with them.
If I can't have you
Reiteration of the impact on happiness if I can't have you.
If I can't have you
Repeating the desire to have you by my side.
Here by my side
If I can't have you physically present.
If I can't have you
Emphasizing the emotional impact of not having you.
I'll break down and cry
It may lead to a breakdown and tears.
If I can't have you
If I can't have you, satisfaction becomes elusive.
I can't be satisfied
The absence of you makes contentment unattainable.
If I can't have you
Reiteration of the emotional impact of not having you.
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